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amStudio

Windows

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files. (GPL)

Greenshot

Windows

Greenshot is a revolutionary screenshot tool optimized for productivity. (GPL)

recordMyDesktop

Linux, UNIX

recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for GNU/linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it’s primary task. (GPL)

Shutter

Linux

Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, apply different effects to it, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. (GPL)

ZScreen

Windows

ZScreen is an open-source screen capture program that allows for region/window/full-screen screenshots. (GPL)

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The Best Directories of Free Open Source Web Design Templates

There are tons of free design template directories on the net, but sorting through all of them can be a very tedious process. Instead, we suggest that you start with these four, which we consider to be the best free open source design template directories online.

1. OSWD: Over 2,000 of the best freebie web design templates. Also allows for search capability by color, contrast, validation, and other categories.
2. OpenWebDesign:A large and active community of individuals who share free web design templates. Includes regular design contests and a sub-category of most popular designs to speed up your search.
3. Open Designs: Headed by a non-profit board, the open design community has almost 600 designs which have been vetted and moderated by the community’s volunteer board. Also includes a relatively active forum where designers can share tips and resources.
4. CSS Tinderbox: CSS Tinderbox prevents you from having to “reinvent the wheel” by providing very basic, yet solid, CSS/XHTML design templates from which you can build off of.
   

Open Source Web Design Programs

Why pay for software if you can find it free? Usually, the answer is that the free stuff just plain isn’t any good. You won’t find that to be the case with the open source web design software programs in this section, however, which are all the best of the best.

1. Nvu: An open-source web authoring system to rival FrontPage and Dreamweaver. (Linux, Windows, and Mac)
2. Cssed: A CSS editor featuring auto completion, syntax highlighting and validation. (C, C++) (Linux)
3. Quanta Plus: A top-notch HTML editor and web development for the K Desktop Environment.
4. Bluefish: An HTML editor for programmers written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. (C) (GNU/Linux, Unix)
5. GIMPShop: The open source replacement for Photoshop. (Mac, Linux, and Windows)
6. Inkscape: The vector graphics application which may spell the end for Adobe Illustrator.

Complete Web Design Templates

If you want to get off the ground with your website quickly, then you may want a complete template that requires minimal tweaking. In this section we highlight some of the best complete template resources on the web. These templates include not only the CSS, but also the (X)HTML and in some cases the graphic files to get your site up as fast as possible.

1. TemplateNavigator: The largest catalogue of free website and flash templates, along with quality preview shots.
2. TemplateBox: Over 300 freebie website, logo, banner, and flash templates to complement their collection of paid offerings.
3. Template Monster: A small but very high-quality set of web, flash, and blog templates.
4. Art for the Web: 75 freebie templates. Pretty good place to look if you’re looking for something slightly out of the ordinary.
5. Free CSS Templates: A 206 template strong resource which is frequently updated with new submissions.
6. Effex-Media: Free website templates designed by designers, this massive list is categorized by website type and includes user reviews of many of the templates.
7. DotcomWebDesign: Hundreds of free templates, some of which are really top-notch. However, the categorization is a little arbitrary so be ready to spend some time manually searching.
8. Themebot Design Templates: This site has some design templates, but not very many. There is a good amount of free themes.
9. Groovy Lizard: Personal page templates (commercial use must buy a license)
10. Interspire: Freebie web, Frontpage and Dreamweaver templates
11. Joyful Heart Designs: Personal page templates generally with floral designs.
12. OpenSourceTemplates: Free CSS and xhtml open source website templates and Web 2.0 designs.
13. Ricky’s Web Templates: 50+ freebie templates, graphics, and buttons.
14. Free CSS Templates: A dozen full-featured fully functional CSS based templates.
15. FreekTemplates.com: A collection of business, cars and bikes, and hosting templates.
16. Template Perfection: 200+ freebie templates with quite a few non-english oriented templates.
17. TemplateWorkz: 48 freebie web templates, along with some basic logo and newsletter templates.
18. Zymic: 80 freebie templates (HTML Pages + CSS + Images + PSD Files + Blank Images Files).
19. OpenSourceTemplates: A community-driven CSS and xhtml open source template design showcase.
20. Freelayouts: HTML and Flash templates.
21. FreeCSSTemplates.org: Over 100 freebie CSS templates.
22. Free Layouts: Complete list of hundreds of HTML, flash, and CSS templates.
23. Free Templates Online: Dozens of easily customizable templates categorized by theme.
24. Free Website Templates: A large collection of templates that don’t require a reciprocal link.
25. Six-Shooter Media: Free CSS and xhtml open source templates.
26. Free Flash Template: Web templates and intros with tons of special features.
27. Layouts4Free.com: Free web layouts with search capability.
28. Solucija: Free XHTML / CSS website templates already setup and sorted by commercial use.
29. MasterTemplates: Professionally designed free website layouts along with PowerPoint templates.
30. TemplateWorld: Free, tableless, W3C-compliant web design layouts designed by Template World designers.
31. Painted Pixels: Free web page templates, buttons, and background tiles for non-commercial use.
32. CSSFill: A selection of CSS / XHTML based layouts and templates by Michael Strand.
33. ThemesBase: Templates organized by popular content management, blogging and forum systems.
34. Arcsin Design Templates: 22 Freebie XTML and CSS Templates
35. Snakeye Web Templates: 20 templates with a focus on Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
36. Steve’s Templates: Dozens of templates, free with link back.
37. GordonMac.com: Free CSS templates along with some freebie PHP scripts.
38. Web Design Helper: Full page templates including the graphics and code.
39. Webmaster Resources: 25 free web templates.

CSS Layouts

If you’re looking for the freedom to create something entirely original but just want some of the basic layout taken care of, this section is for you. The templates below are pure CSS, leaving you a clean slate from which you can add the design, graphics, and text as you see fit.

1. Layout Gala: 40 CSS tri-color layouts to help you pick a format.
2. AndreasVilkund.com: Free Templates by designer Andreas Viklund.
3. CSS Template Directory: A collection of CSS formatted page templates, developed and distributed by different designers.
4. BenMeadowcroft.com: Top-notch web design templates by Ben Meadowcroft, mixed in with a few spoof pages and experimentation.
5. Mollio: A set of basic CSS templates that that also have some sample basic content to speed things along.
6. Real World Style: CSS layouts organized by format type.
7. Little Boxes: CSS template arrangements with quickly accessible code.
8. The Layout Reservoir: Simple, straightforward, and manipulable 2 and 3 column layouts.
9. Protagonist Web Resources: A list of 43 tableless layouts to go along with the other protagonist resources.
10. Glish: CSS Layout Techniques by Eric Costello which have been stripped down to the bare essentials.
11. FU2K: CSS layouts designed for Netscape 4 compatibility.
12. Position is Everything: Tableless design resource with CSS bug workarounds.
13. ThreeColumnLayouts: The ultimate 3 column layout resource list.
14. ssi-developer: Two column CSS template samples with recommendations.
15. MIS Web Design: Fancy Paragraphs with CSS.
16. Ruthsarian Layouts: Freebie-CSS layouts ranging from basic to complex arrangements.
17. A List Apart: CSS: Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques
18. Code-Sucks.com: Creating 1, 2, 3, and 4 column layouts.
19. Particle Tree: Dynamic resolution dependent layouts.
20. Project Seven: Fluid CSS Layouts
21. MyCelly: A collection of 16 basic layout templates.
22. Ideas: 12 free CSS templates.
23. CSS Library: Dynamic drive’s tableless CSS layouts.
24. IntensiveStation: A collection of all new basic CSS templates.
25. IronMyers: A collection of layouts with full Grade-A browser support for IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and more.
26. The CSS Playground: Cutting edge CSS demos by Stu Nicholls’
27. Wordpress Theme Viewer: Collection of searchable themes organized by columns, colors, rounded corners, and other categories.
28. Fluid 2-Column Template: A fully usable “fluid” template, meaning that the design expands and contracts with the window size.
29. Avinash 2.0: 12 Free CSS Templates

Automated CSS Tools and Generators

This set of resources isn’t for those that want to create something entirely unique. But if you aren’t a strong coder and just want to get the job done, these automated CSS code tools will let you create CSS at the push of a button.

1. CSS Creator: Select the form colors, number of columns, html version, and press a button. Presto, a CSS template for your page.
2. Inknoise: The layout-o-matic: fill out the form and out pops your CSS.
3. Strange Banana: Simply refresh the template generator until you get the style you like, then save the page which has your CSS embedded in the header.
4. Nidahas: A CSS-based form template.
5. Maketemplate: A PHP – HTML – CSS template generator for two column layouts.
6. IBDjohn: CSS template generator for three column layouts.
7. TemplatR: Another easy CSS template generator.
8. PsycHo: Your own psychogenesis, your own web design template.
9. Firdamatic: Tableless 2 or 3 column layout generator.
10. Wordpress Theme Generator: Online generator creates custom unique Wordpress themes.

Blog Themes and Templates

Designing blogs has become so popular as a subset of web design that we thought they deserved their own separate section. In this section, we highlight some of the best open source weblog template sources.

1. SmashingMagazine: 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
2. Kaushal Sheth: Elegant WordPress themes.
3. ErraticWisdom: Textpattern templates
4. Scribez: 10 Best Wordpress Templates.
5. pinkdesign: Free diary / blog templates
6. Textgarden.org: The official site for themes designed for Textpattern.
7. Blogger Templates: A collection of Blogger templates on a wide variety of themes.
8. Blogfashions: A collection of free Movable Type compatible blog templates.
9. FinalSense: High-quality templates for Blogger.
10. WP Themes: WordPress themes all designed by Sadish Bala.
11. Drupal Theme Garden: Showcase of themes available for Drupal 4.7x and Drupal 5.x.
12. Weblog Design: A small number of high-quality weblog templates.

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This is a list of online css tools to help web designers produce code easier and quicker.

Fonts

Typetester

Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.

Em Calculator

Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.

CSS Type Set

CSS Type Set is a hands-on typography tool allowing designers and developers to interactively test and learn how to style their web content.

Font Tester

Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to visually compare fonts side by side with different CSS font styles applied.

PXtoEM Conversion

PXtoEM is px to em conversion made simple. Choose your body font size in pixels (px)and out comes a complete pixel (px) to em conversion table, making elastic web design with CSS a snap.

CSSTXT

Create a style to your text.

CSS Layouts Creator and Generators

YUI – CSS Grid Builder

The CSS Grid Builder is a simple web-based interface for quickly creating any number of layouts that rely solely on YUI’s CSS files.

YAML Builder

A tool for visual layout development of YAML based CSS layouts.

iStylr

Online CSS Template Generator

Grid Designer

A Tool for designing grids and typography.

CSS Creator

This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.

DrawAble Markup Language

It provides you the possibility to literally draw your website’s code.

CSS Generator

Create Cross-Browser List-Based Navigation Bars with Ease.

CSSMate

An Interactive Online CSS Editor to design your CSS styles.

QrONE CSS Designer

A CSS Style Editor.

CSS Frame Generator

Simple tool that will generate CSS frame out of your XHTML structure.

XHTML/CSS Markup Generator

Simple tool to help you start XHTML/CSS coding faster.

Sky CSS Tool

Sky CSS allows you to create CSS classes almost without using manuscript code.

CSS Creator – CSS Generator

CSS Creator allows you to choose a style for your web page.

CSS Grid Calculator

Use the CSS Grid Calculator to quickly visualize page layout and draw grids in a variety of ways.

CSS Generator

This tool will create a basic style sheet.

Dynamic 3 Column Layout Generator

A usable generator for 3 column layout.

Construct Your CSS

WYSIWYG Layout Editor, Semantic & Table-Free.

Blueprint Grid CSS Generator

This tool will help you generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files.

CSS Frameworks

Blueprint

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time.

Yet Another Multicolumn Layout

Yet Another Multicolumn Layout (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users.

Hartija – Css Print Framework

An Universal Cascading Style Sheets for Web Printing.

Elements

It was built to help designers write CSS faster and more efficient.

960 Grid System

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels.

Logic CSS Framework

The Logic CSS framework is a collection of CSS files and PHP utilities to cut development times for web-standards compliant xHTML layouts.

SenCSs

SenCSS is a sensible standards CSS Framework. This means that SenCSS tries to supply standard styling for all repetitive parts of your CSS.

Tripoli

Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering. By resetting and rebuilding browser standards, Tripoli forms a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects.

BlueTrip CSS Framework

BlueTrip gives you a sensible set of styles and a common way to build a website so that you can skip past the grunt work and get right to designing.

Grids CSS

The foundational YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns.

Formatters, Optimizers and Compressors

Code Beautifier

Online CSS Formatter and Optimizer.

Clean CSS

Optimize and format your CSS using a variety of different compression settings. Fixes sloppy code and generates clean and concise CSS.

CSS SuperScrub

This tool can significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names.

Online CSS Optimizer

Online CSS Optimizer is a web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets.

CSS Drive Gallery – CSS Compressor

You can choose from three levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression.

Online CSS Optimizer

Online CSS Optimizer which reduces the file size of your CSS code.

Robson – CSS Compressor

The CSS Compressor makes major changes to stylesheets and is still in developement, so it may not work correctly.

FlumpCakes – Online CSS Optimizer

This tools takes in a CSS file, and parses and outputs a leaner version, removing any redundancies and attributes which are not needed.

Format CSS Online

Automatically format your CSS so they are easy to read and edit.

PrettyPrinter

An online code beautyfier.

Tabifier

The tabifier is a tool to properly indent computer code.

Validation

The W3C CSS Validation Service

The W3C CSS Validation Service is a free software created by the W3C to help Web designers and Web developers check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

CSS Analyser

This service has been provided to allow you to check the validity of your CSS against the W3C’s validation service, along with a colour contrast test, and a test to ensure that relevant sizes are specified in relative units of measurement.

CSS Redundancy Checker

Use this tool to find CSS selectors that aren’t used by any of your HTML files and may be redundant.

CSS Forms

JotForm

First Web Based WYSIWYG Form Builder. Create and publish web forms using your browser.

Wufoo

Wufoo makes collecting information on the web easy.

FormSmarts

FormSmarts is an integrated web form service that lets you create forms, publish them online, and get form results.

FormAssembly

Create Web Forms and Collect Responses with our State-of-the-Art Form Builder and Processing Service.

Navigation

CSS Menu Builder

Create a standard compliant xhtml/css menu for your website.

CSS Menu Generator

CSS Menu Generator is here to provide the average webmaster with tools to create custom, cross browser compatible website menus.

TabCreatr

Free Css Menu Generator.

Reset CSS

Reset CSS

The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on.

Yahoo! UI Library: Reset CSS

The foundational YUI Reset CSS file removes and neutralizes the inconsistent default styling of HTML elements, creating a level playing field across A-grade browsers.

Master Stylesheet: The Most Useful CSS Technique

A basic master stylesheet.

Blank CSS Layouts

A collection of 168 Grid and CSS Layouts

These CSS Layouts offer full Grade-A browser support. That means that these CSS Layouts will look and behave the same in all internet browsers, like Internet Explores 6 (IE6), Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), Firefox, Opera, Safari and so on.

Faux Column CSS Layouts

42 faux-column CSS layouts for downloading.

Fixed Width CSS Layouts

53 fixed-width CSS layouts for downloading.

___layouts

The foundational ___layouts file offers five preset page widths, the option to have a fixed width or a text “zoom” style scaling effect and two core templates which give you the ability to nest subdivided regions of one to four columns.

The Only CSS Layout You Need

10 different layouts with example pages, all based on the same HTML.

Little Boxes

Workarounds for CSS browser issues.

Other Tools

PSD 2 CSS Online

Dynamic Web Pages from your Photoshop Designs in Seconds!.

Conditional-CSS

Conditional-CSS allows you to write maintainable CSS with conditional logic to target specific CSS statements at both individual browsers and groups of browsers.

CSS Evolve

CSSEvolve lets you play with many properties of a web site, including the site’s color scheme, fonts, borders, and more.

CSS Text Wrapper

The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle.

The Box Office

The Box Office lets you wrap/float/contour text around freeform images using CSS for usage in (X)HTML pages.

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